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MLB 2015 Regular Season |OT| Pickin' Up the Pace of Play
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Ninja Scooter
Member
is Zach Lee just complete garbage? I don't understand how he's not up by now?
Silver Arrows
Banned
i don't know why this made me laugh and snicker, but it did
Uribe revenge.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Frozenprince
Banned
Wow that's racist as fuck.
sf2fanatic
Member
He probably gonna get a call soon after Anderson's injury.
Frozenprince
Banned
He's been hurt most of the year.
brianjones
Member
he started yesterday in AAA speculation he might take Beachys spot who was optioned
Saturday against the mests
He's one of the most overrated new players I've seen in a while.
Looks like another Mark Reynolds as far as hitting is concerned.
I'd bat Puig leadoff.
The Elite
BOSS
Frozenprince
Banned
Joc? Overrated?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Joc Pederson has been worth 3 fWAR in 90 games. Kid is a flat out stuuuuuuuuuud. Just going through a rough patch right now, even if the bat isn't working as well, his defense is gold glove level. Mark Reynolds never had a season as good as Yung Joc is having right now. Gotta look beyond just the BA man.
He is a great player.
Mark Reynolds hit 44 hrs, drove in 100 rbi's, and hit 260. one year.
Like I said as far as hitting is concerned he's another Mark Reynolds. I see a young player who takes these massive cuts at pitches trying to hit bombs every time up and has no idea how to actually hit at the major league level.
Frozenprince
Banned
That's great?
Mark Reynolds best year in 09' still wasn't as efficient offensively as Joc's year so far is now. 134 wRC+ for Joc, 127 for Reynolds.
Joc has Reynolds beat in every category. Walk rate, K%, BB/K, OBP, OBP+, wOBA, etc etc. And that's just comparing Joc right now to Reynolds peak year. Compare their overall stats when adjusted for average and Joc beats him handily.
Joc is a far, far better player than a one dimensional K machine. You see a kid hacking, I see one with tremendous power and a wide swing that generates that power who still hits .230 and draws walks. He was hitting .270+ for most of the year.
Any FO in baseball would trade anything it took to get Joc Pederson.
Time will tell I guess. In the meantime I guess we'll all just sit back and watch him hack away in the leadoff spot.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I NEED that taco cap. Especially since I never got a London Rippers one, brahs only lasted half a season because the OBGYN owner couldn't make payments to PanAm league.....
detectiveconan1
Member
Blue Jays are interested in Mat Latos.
Frozenprince
Banned
matthewwhatever
Member
The Blue Jays are interested in a lot of players. It doesn't mean Rogers is willing to spend anything extra to get them.
Finally through with travelling a lot and on travel stand-by when I'm not travelling. Time to focus on baseball and get the Koshien thread ready (for the 3-4 people who will post in it 
). (Prelims are already hype!)
Thought the Bucs would pull out a win last night but as soon as those first 2 runs went up for the Royals I had a bad feeling. They've already recovered from a terrible start to the season, having a bad start to the second half isn't going to help.
At least they didn't give up 19 runs like my Fighters. ;_;
). (Prelims are already hype!)Thought the Bucs would pull out a win last night but as soon as those first 2 runs went up for the Royals I had a bad feeling. They've already recovered from a terrible start to the season, having a bad start to the second half isn't going to help.
At least they didn't give up 19 runs like my Fighters. ;_;
Frozenprince
Banned
Finally through with travelling a lot and on travel stand-by when I'm not travelling. Time to focus on baseball and get the Koshien thread ready (for the 3-4 people who will post in it
Thought the Bucs would pull out a win last night but as soon as those first 2 runs went up for the Royals I had a bad feeling. They've already recovered from a terrible start to the season, having a bad start to the second half isn't going to help.
At least they didn't give up 19 runs like my Fighters. ;_;
Hue hue hue hue hueeeeee.
Tigers finally tied for first. SO HYPE (they'll blow it of course). Man the Central sucks this year. Glad I shelled out for the Pacific PV stuff.
CosmicQueso
Member
Toronto came into town, dropped the upper decker, kicked the dog, took the good beer from the fridge, wiped a booger on the wall and pissed on our only good rug.
What an asswhoopin. =(
Oh, you!
Entire league below .500 not once but TWICE this year.
Frozenprince
Banned
It's so hard to watch the Tigers sometimes. I watch Fujinami and basically flip through Pacific games otherwise. It's baaaaaad lol.
Brett Lawrie is refusing to talk to the Toronto media, supposedly because of the way they portrayed him as an immature hothead. I'm no fan of sports media, but he still has a lot of Canadian fans. This little pouting antic is only proving that he really is an immature hothead.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Even though it's true, especially in regards to Toronto sports media? Anything he says that could have an inkling of being twisted into something it isn't, T.O. sports media will do it. Same as Phil Kessel now that he's in Pittsburgh.
And besides, he seems content on simply letting it rest and play well in a place where they only come once a year.
sf2fanatic
Member
I've been saying this all season about Joc in comparison. They need JRoll back in leadoff. He's gonna come out of the slump soon.
Also Libeatore got demoted for Ian Thomas
CosmicQueso
Member
Wait.... refusing to talk to media = pouting = proof he's an immature hothead?
He has no obligation to talk to them, especially if he thinks they're just going to goad him into saying something he doesn't want to. He's let go of Toronto, Toronto fan should let go of him. He's not there anymore. Move on.
He hasn't been an "immature hothead" at all this season. In fact, he's played great and seems to be considered a good teammate. He also took the high road in the kerfuffle with the Royals earlier in the year.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
Member
Hi Baseball GAF.
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my Weekend Seattle plans fell through, and I am trying to unload these two tickets to the Jays and Mariners game.
Please PM me if you or anyone you know is interested.
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my Weekend Seattle plans fell through, and I am trying to unload these two tickets to the Jays and Mariners game.
Please PM me if you or anyone you know is interested.
For the moment I agree they should move Joc down to the 7th spot. Too much pressure on him batting lead off. Maybe move Rollins down to the 9th spot. He had a couple of games were he bat 9th and seemed to be doing better. Maybe now that Crawford is back, they could also consider moving him to first or even Puig.
I think Libeatore has been doing great. Maybe this will give him some rest and he can comeback in September along with Yimi Garcia and hopefully Paco Rodriguez will be off the DL.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
More injuries yay.
sf2fanatic
Member
7 K's already. I consider that a quality start
Ninja Scooter
Member
I don't think Pederson is overrated. Granted, he's not Mike Trout or Bryce Harper (but who is?) He's looking like he's basically going to be Adam Dunn but with positive defensive value. That's a pretty good and valuable player if you look at the offensive WAR numbers Dunn put up in his prime. What killed Dunn was that he was a butcher in the field and you couldn't find a place to play him.
sf2fanatic
Member
It's kinda early to critique Joc even I called him Mark Reynolds 2.0. It took Bryce a couple of years to get were he's at now. McGwire needs to really earn his money and teach Joc to hit opposite field and lose the uppercut swing.
Jack Remington
Banned
Rollins shouldn't even be playing. Bring up Seager.
Pederson was great in leadoff when he was getting on base at a .400 clip as he did much of the year. But he's down to .357. Dude needs to get back to drawing walks.
Pederson was great in leadoff when he was getting on base at a .400 clip as he did much of the year. But he's down to .357. Dude needs to get back to drawing walks.
AgentChris
Member
Dmncnby2k9
Banned
Lets go Mets!
Future PhaZe
Member
this is why the nats aint shit
cant hit anything on a 12:35 start in one of the more gorgeous days of the summer on home turf against a pitcher who can't get a road win and you're showing donuts through 4 innings
cant hit anything on a 12:35 start in one of the more gorgeous days of the summer on home turf against a pitcher who can't get a road win and you're showing donuts through 4 innings
:jnc
CosmicQueso
Member
Rosenthal saying that talks between the Mets and A's about Zobrist have broken off because Mets management doesn't want to take on Zobrist's $3m salary?
Wut.
Hey Cubs, you need Kazmir. Let's make a deal.
Wut.
Hey Cubs, you need Kazmir. Let's make a deal.
sf2fanatic
Member
Is that today?
The Elite
BOSS
#dead
Seriously, I can't see how he injured his wrist there.
I always consider Zobrist to be a good pick up.
The Elite
BOSS
He's right though. Toronto sports media is shit. He should come out with a few prepared lines to field questions.
It's remarkable the difference between Donaldson gushing over Oakland and Lawrie not giving a fuck to deal with T.O. media.